User:AlexanderGerten

My name is Alex Gerten. I started editing when I was required to write and publish on Wikipedia a summary of some subject relating to English Legal History, which became this. I'm primarily interested in improving articles in the fields of intellectual history and law.

excellent quotes
". . . I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method. I have tumbled over divers authors in our libraries with small profit for want of art, order, memory, judgment. I have never traveled but in map or card, in which my unconfined thoughts have freely expatriated."

-Robert Burton

". . . the work I described to you looked both fragmented, repetitive, and discontinuous was quite in keeping with what might be called a 'feverish laziness.' It's a character trait of people who love libraries, documents, references, dusty manuscripts, texts that have never been read, books which, no sooner printed, were closed and then slept on the shelves and were only taken down centuries later. All this quite suits the busy inertia of those who profess useless knowledge, a sort of extravagant knowledge, the wealth of a parvenu–and, as you well know, its external signs are found at the foot of the page."

-Michel Foucault